Lots of great stuff in this new release, the first one based on LLVM. Check the Laurent’s post to learn more about the work done on compilation, optimization, concurrency, compatibility and Cocoa interaction. And a big thank you to Laurent Sansonetti who is putting so much effort in this project!

However, don’t forget it’s still a beta release and you might encounter bugs. Feel free to report them in the bug tracker or ask on the mailing list.

Textorize is a Ruby-based font rasterizer command line utility for Mac OS X. It generates PNG files from an input string and options, using Mac OS X’s pristine typography facilities. As John said, it’s a case where a few lines of Ruby code beat Photoshop.